Millstone Hill Observatory

The Millstone Hill Observatory, located in Westford, Massachusetts,
is a broad-based atmospheric sciences research facility owned and operated
by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The Atmospheric Sciences Group, which staffs and manages the observatory,
is a part of M.I.T.'s Haystack Observatory,
a basic research organization whose focus is radio wave
and radar science, instrumentation and techniques.

Data from the Millstone Hill ISR radar is available either through the
Millstone Hill ISR data access
page, which covers only our ISR's data, or through Madrigal,
which gives access to data from a wide range of upper atmospheric science instruments.

While the primary mission of the Observatory is basic research, the
Atmospheric Sciences Group and the Haystack Observatory are also active in
education. In addition to training graduate students, there is the
Haystack Research Experiences for Undergraduates,
REU summer program for college students.
This program, as well as most of the research at the Observatory,
is sponsored by the
National Science Foundation (NSF).